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While it is a commonplace to detect their influences in Kent (e.g., the practice of partible inheritanceFor other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an extremely important role in human societies. Both anthropology and known as gavelkindGavelkind is a peculiar system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but found also in other parts of England. In Kent all land is presumed to be held by this tenure until the contrary is proved, but some lands have been disgavelled b), the Jutes in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight vanished, leaving only the slightest of traces. One recent scholar, Robin Bush, has argued that the Jutes of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight became victims of a policy of ethnic cleansingThe term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population transfer, while at the other it merges with depor by the West Saxon s, although this has been the subject of debate amongst academics.
It is thought that others remained in their continental homeland, and became the indigenous people of modern Jutland.
Some authorities believe the Jutes are identical with the GeatsGeats Gautar Old Norse or Gotar in Swedish) is the Old English spelling of the name of a Scandinavian people living in Gotaland, land of the Geats, currently within the borders of modern Sweden. The name of the Geats lives on in the Swedish counties of Va, a people who once lived in southern SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf, such as the OEDThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press. Generally regarded as the definitive dictionary of Modern English, it defines around 500,000 headwords and includes some 2. 5 million i, which speculatively identifies the SwedishSwedish svenska is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland finlandsvenska , Aland and in the coastland of Estonia estlandssvenska . Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic g Geats (through Eotas, Iótas, Iútan and Geátas) with the Danish Jutes.
However, in Beowulf the Jutes appear as the Eotenas in the Finn passage (see the fight at Finnsburg), making them a people distinct from the Geatas. It may be that the two tribal names happened to be confused, which has happened, for example, in the sources about the death of the Swedish king Östen.